Description Quotes

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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. — Meghan O'Rourke
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. — Ben Okri
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue:… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. — Winona Ryder
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Erwin Schrodinger
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be… — David Sedaris
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up… — Chloe Sevigny
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. — Maria Sharapova
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving… — Charles Stanley
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of… — James Surowiecki
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description,… — Twyla Tharp
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. — Sam Taylor-Wood
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was… — Steven Wright
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want… — Julian Baggini
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any… — Oscar Wilde
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only… — C.S. Lewis
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… — Robert M. Pirsig

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